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  2. A Page for All Boys and Girls

    The Bears were feeling so fluttery and dottery, They had just won a pound prize in the Lottery. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. Do You Know?

    This is the ancient name given to Venice from the ancient ceremony or the Doge throwing a ring into the Adriatic, saying, "We wed thee, O sea ...

    Article : 40 words
  4. RIO DE LA PLATA

    This name means river of silver just as Argentina means silver, and the names were given because when first discovered these regions were thought ...

    Article : 32 words
  5. PYLONS

    The towers supporting cables are called pylons. The word pylon was first used for the truncated pyramid through which the ancient Egyptian ...

    Article : 40 words
  6. WEATHERCOCK ON CHURCH STEEPLES

    In the middle of the ninth century a Papal order was given for the figure of a cock to be set on every church steeple as the emblem of St. Peter, ...

    Article : 62 words
  7. INFANTRY

    The word comes from infant, which is a Latin word meaning unable to speak, or a young child. The word came to mean a youth, especially the ...

    Article : 45 words
  8. TRICKS AND PUZZLES

    Try to answer these questions:—(1) How long did the Boer war last? (2) Why do we call voting "polling"? (3) How do we get the term "blue ...

    Article : 51 words
  9. SAD FAREWELLS

    By the time these lines are read the famous First King's Dragoon Guards, newly home in England from India, will have said sad farewells to their ...

    Article : 197 words
  10. LET'S HAVE A LAUGH

    A lecturer had been invited to address the Sunday school, although he was more accustomed to older pupils or church congregations. He was ...

    Article : 565 words
  11. TUNE IN

    The names of six foreign stations are hidden in the sentences-one in each. (1) He founts spraying each bud a ...

    Article : 80 words
  12. BODY BUILDING

    Each of the following four sentences conceals the names of two parts of the human body. Can you discover them? (1) They sent the advertisements to ...

    Article : 74 words
  13. WELL! WELL!

    An unfortunate frog fell into a well 30ft. deep and, being determined to get out of it, every morning it jumped up 2ft. and fell back 1ft. each night. ...

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  14. LITTLE MISS WHY

    Though Ernestine is only three She's not the least bit shy— At least a hundred times a day She asks "What for?" and "Why?" ...

    Article : 126 words
  15. HOWLERS

    Some recent howlers are given below, and you have to try to identify what the schoolboys were trying to describe. ...

    Article : 92 words
  16. DO YOU KNOW?

    How many of the following queries can you answer correctly? (1) What's the unnecessary word in this sentence? ...

    Article : 86 words
  17. SOLUTIONS

    (1) From October 12, 1899, until May 31, 1902; (2) Voting was originally a process of counting heads, or "polls"; (3) The chief part of the Insignia of ...

    Article : 231 words
  18. AN ANCIENT COIN

    A man took to an antique dealer an old coin which he had dug up in his garden. "It is evidently of the reign of Charles I., for it has on it the usual ...

    Article : 76 words
  19. THE LONGEST RIVER

    The Amazon, which is about 4000 miles in length. The Mississipi would be even longer than this if the Missouri was added to its length; but ...

    Article : 59 words
  20. NUMERICAL PROBLEM

    How can the numbers, 1, 2, and 5 be multiplied by 8, and yet produce only 10 as the result? (Answer elsewhere on page.) ...

    Article : 26 words
  21. SCOUT BULLFROG

    Fort George is a remote settlement on James Bay, which in turn is the southern extremity of Hudson Bay in Canada. ...

    Article : 63 words
  22. GETTING THE BIRD

    What are six apparently meaningless sets of letters are given below, but all they require is rearrangement and the insertion of one or more o's. You ...

    Article : 57 words
  23. SWEET RIVER

    The river Sava is probably the sweetest river in the world, for all the saccharine which is detected being smuggled into Yugoslavia is thrown ...

    Article : 56 words
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